The cutscenes are well acted and well voiced but the set-up is pure cliché: your grandfather is a former footballing great your dad is absent, a failed footballer himself, and thus a source of motivation as you attempt to win his approval your best friend is an aspiring footballer whose success goes to his head and your agent looks and sounds as if he's about to sell your soul.ĭespite the sports movie tropes, I found myself rooting for Hunter: there's a warmth to a lot of scenes - the quantity of fistbumps aside - and the game resists most of the seemingly-inevitable dramas signaled by the above. You follow protagonist Alex Hunter from a 17-year-old going through his exit trials at a club of your choice, to battling for a first-team spot, being sent out on loan and through to the end of your first season.
The Journey is an effort to lend a little of that personal context to playing on your own. Real football is already as much about storylines as scores, and the best experiences I've ever had with FIFA have been when there were long-running rivalries between me and friends as we sat beside one another in front of the screen. It's an exciting addition and no doubt compelling even if it's also a bit shit.įIFA isn't the first game to add story to its sports - NBA2k has been doing it for years in the M圜areer mode - but conceptually it's a great way to make the matches in between more interesting. The latest iteration of EA's football giant boasts a new, glossy mode called The Journey in which you take control of Alex Hunter, watch his ascent through his first season in the Premier League in mo-capped cutscenes, and make occasional decisions via a BioWare-style dialogue wheel. Some years a new FIFA game arrives with barely anything to write about bar balance adjustments that might form a monthly patch in many other games.
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